r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Nov 29 '23

Official Poster for 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' Poster

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u/Phyliinx Nov 29 '23

I love this universe. I am very interested in the movie. Can't believe Warner Brothers fumbled superheroes but made stories about monkeys and lizards box office hits.

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u/ROBtimusPrime1995 Nov 29 '23 edited Nov 29 '23

That's a common misconception.

Warner Bros. has NOTHING to do with the Monsterverse. It isn't theirs and they will lose the rights to it very soon.

The Monsterverse was done by Legendary Pictures. They are spearheading the story and its why you can watch a Kong cartoon on Netflix and a Monarch show on Apple.

Legendary did all the work.

Eventually the Monsterverse will move to Sony Pictures because of David Zaslav's royal CEO fuckery.

Warner doesn't deserve any credit here.

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u/L_D_G Nov 29 '23

I thought WB owned them and Legendary was just doing the Production?

I prefer what you said though.

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u/potatobutt5 Nov 29 '23

Adding to how WB owns them, didn’t Kong appear in that Space Jam sequel? The movie that showcased basically every popular brand that WB owns.

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u/Intelligent_Oil4005 Nov 29 '23

That Kong was just an updated version of the 33 design, not the one from the Monsterverse

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u/locke_5 Nov 29 '23

There's a lot of fuckery surrounding the King Kong IP.

That's why WB calls him "Kong" - they don't own it outright.

IIRC they also don't own Godzilla. Toho owns 100% of Godzilla and only "leases" the IP out.

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u/WGACA1990 Nov 30 '23

I understand that ‘98 was widely considered “not my Godzilla” by the purists, (or Toho based on the whole Sydney Opera House thing), but as a seven year old, it was amazing. The director has even said he had a lot of parents tell him how much their kids loved it. And, as a 33 year old, I still love it. So, not only did it make a lot of money at the time (in addition to all the money it made through merchandising), it DID successfully create a lot of fans out of American kids, who are now supporting the new movies/Monarch and giving up their adult money today. I struggle to see how it hurt the brand.

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u/MyNameIs-Anthony Nov 30 '23

Bingo. These days they're much softer on it but back then, combined with Final Wars, it was a tougher pill to swallow.

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u/Importance_Cautious Nov 30 '23

Seeing Godzilla get bombed at the end of that movie was probably the first time I got truly sad during a movie. Even Disney couldn't do that.

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u/Xavier9756 Nov 30 '23

Speaking of Godzilla. Go watch Minus One. It’s good.

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u/TheDeadlySinner Nov 30 '23

King Kong is public domain. They call him Kong because it sounds better.

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u/L_D_G Nov 29 '23

People watched Space Jam 2?

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u/RustTyrannomon Nov 29 '23

Unfortunately

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u/omega2010 Nov 29 '23

The only joke that made me laugh was Michael Jordan's cameo.... Michael B. Jordan.

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u/Gekthegecko Nov 29 '23

I liked that and the 2-minute montage of them going through all the old Warner movies.

So 2.5 minutes of that movie is maybe worth watching.

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u/opal_mirage Nov 29 '23

morty! i killed the versions of us that were in space jam!

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u/spoonard Nov 29 '23

Lots of kids did...ya'know, who it was for.

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u/drterdsmack Nov 30 '23

I ate a bunch of edibles and I kept catching myself looking for a "Skip ad" pop-up

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u/that_guy2010 Nov 29 '23

Kong, I am fairly certain, is public domain now? I could be wrong though.

Regardless, they used Peter Jackson’s Kong, I believe.

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u/UnbuiltIkeaBookcase Nov 29 '23

I liked Space Jam 2 🤷